Jul 22, 2021 School Board

AGAIN.

THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM A CALM MEETINGS.

I APOLOGIZE AND NEED COMMENT FOR NON FROM THE BOARD.

ANY PUBLIC COMMENT, SEEING NONE BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO FURTHER REQUEST TO SPEAK.

MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

WE'RE GONNA NEED TO DO A ROLL CALL.

TROUBLE DISTRICT ONE.

MR. BALLOU.

DISTRICT TWO.

MR. LANICE DISTRICT THREE, MR. HOWARD.

DISTRICT FOUR, VICE PRESIDENT COLLINS.

[D.1. Professional Educators Leadership Academy ]

MOVING FORWARD.

WHAT ITEM D ONE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.

A RECOGNITION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.

THANK YOU, MS. MS. DONALDSON FROM HENRY RESOURCEFUL.

GOOD EVENING.

THE BATON ROUGE BUSINESS REPORT.

UM, AND MR. TAXMAN, OUR PRESIDENTS, UH, ABSENCE DR.

AND BOARD MEMBERS.

IT IS MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO PRESENT TO YOU, THE EDUCATORS AND LEADERS IN OUR DISTRICT THAT PARTICIPATED IN OUR INAUGURAL, UH, PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY.

WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.

WE STARTED THIS WITH JUST KIND OF A QUICK PHONE CALL TO MR. JULIO MALARA, WHO IS THE CEO AND PRESIDENT OF LOTS OF PUBLICATIONS IN, IN BATON ROUGE, UH, TWO TO FIVE MAGAZINE, UM,

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UM, AND WE WERE JUST REALLY EXCITED THAT HE WAS OPEN TO THIS IDEA TO CREATE THIS ACADEMY THAT WAS BASED UPON SOME OF THE GREAT WORK THAT HE HAS DONE WITH BUSINESS LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO I'M GOING TO ALLOW MR. MALARA TO JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND THEN WE'LL BRING THESE AMAZING, UH, LEADERS BEFORE YOU, I WILL TELL YOU ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE PROGRAM FOR US WAS THE FACT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BRING LEADERS FROM ALL DIFFERENT DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS AND ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SO FROM TRANSPORTATION, FROM SCHOOL, UH, FROM THE SCHOOLS, PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, DEANS OF STUDENTS, UM, WE JUST HAD A CROSS SECTION OF PHENOMENAL ED EDUCATORS WHO SERVE OUR STUDENTS IN SO MANY DIFFERENT CAPACITIES AND BRING THEM TOGETHER TO DISCUSS HOW THEY WILL LEAD THIS DISTRICT INTO FUTURE.

AND SO WITH NO FURTHER DELAY, LET ME ALLOW MR. MALARA TO, UH, GREET YOU AND SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY.

GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS.

IT'S, IT'S A PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BE HERE THIS EVENING.

AND I GOT TO TELL YOU, UH, UM, FOR THE LAST, UH, FIVE YEARS, UH, WE HAVE BEEN, UH, TRAINING LEADERS THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO, UH, SEVERAL, UM, ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, PEOPLE FROM THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HAVE GONE THROUGH OUR PROGRAM.

AND SO WHEN I GOT THE CALL ABOUT, UH, UH, POSSIBLY PUTTING A PROGRAM TOGETHER, WE DECIDED TO, UH, PRODUCE A PILOT PROGRAM AND IT SAID, HEY, LET'S GIVE IT A BEST SHOT HERE AND SEE, BECAUSE, UH, UH, WE NOW HAVE OVER 300 ALUMNI THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY, UH, THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE PROGRAM, UH, AND THE SURVEYS AND THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN BACK HAVE BEEN IN SOME CASES, LIFE ALTERING.

AND, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU A QUICK LITTLE SNAPSHOT AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE ALL KNOW THAT A COUNTRY, A COMMUNITY, A SCHOOL SYSTEM, A SCHOOL, AN ORGANIZATION IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS LEADERSHIP, RIGHT? EVERYTHING RISES AND FALLS ON LEADERS.

AND SO ONE OF, UH, UH, OUR GOALS HAS BEEN TO HELP, UH, RAISE LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF, UH, THE INDUSTRY AND CERTAINLY, UH, WITH, WITH PRINCIPALS AND, AND PEOPLE THAT WORK IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, THEY IMPACT THE NEXT GENERATION.

AND SO IT WAS HONORED, BEEN BLOWN AWAY BY THE HUNGER, HOW HUNGRY EVERY ONE OF THESE PRINCIPALS AND ADMINISTRATIVE, MAYBE ONE OF THESE PARTICIPANTS, HOW THEY LEANED IN.

I WILL TELL YOU, UH, WE COVERED TOPICS LIKE CONFLICT RESOLUTION LEADING AND MANAGING A MULTI-GENERATIONAL WORKFORCE, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT JUST DEALING WITH BABY BOOMERS ANYMORE, GEN XS, BUT YOU GOT GEN Y'S AND GEN Z MILLENNIALS.

UH, UH, UH, WE DID THE BIG HOGAN ASSESSMENT.

SOME OF YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH, WITH BRIGGS MEYER AND, AND, UH, EVEN DISK, BUT THIS IS KIND OF THE, THE UPPER ECHELON WHERE THEY GOT A ONE-ON-ONE PERSONAL COACHING SESSION, UH, WITH THEM TO, TO REALLY DIAL INTO, UH, SOME OF THEIR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.

AND IT'S A REAL PROFITABLE, VERY PAINFUL PROCESS FOR EACH AND ONE OF THEM.

BUT THE THING THAT REALLY STRUCK A CHORD IN ME THAT GOT ME EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY IS HOW HUNGRY THEY WERE TO LEARN.

THESE ARE EDUCATORS.

THESE ARE PEOPLE IN THE SYSTEM, AND, UH, THERE WERE, IT WAS JUST AMAZING, THEIR ENTHUSIASM AND THEIR PASSION TO GROW AND LEARN AND THE INTERACTION WE HAD, A LOT OF CASE STUDIES AND PEER ACTION.

AND SO I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME EXCEPT TELL YOU THAT IT WAS REFRESHING.

I THINK THAT WE'RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, MY COLLEAGUES HERE, UH, DR.

CRYSTAL SLAUGHTER, MR. UH, BILL SLAUGHTER, UH, WHO HELPED FACILITATE, UM, AND LEAD THE CHARGE.

UH, BUT IT WAS A PLEASURE AND AN HONOR, AND WE WANT TO, UH, CONTINUE TO, UH, SEE IF WE CAN HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WITH NO FURTHER ADO TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PEOPLE THAT DID THE REAL WORK.

STEPHANIE DIXON, SUSAN GOSHA.

YOU THANK YOU, SIR.

DR.

JOY ABERNATHY DYER, MS. ROCHELLE ANDERSON CHADWICK.

O'QUINN MS. RAQUEL BROWN, JOE COX, DR.

DR.

SAHARA HANEY, SABRINA HONOR, MS. DIONNE MCCURRY, MR. GREG NOEL, DALLAS ROGERS, KELLY SAVANT, MR. ROBERT SIGNATOR, MR. JAMES SMITH, MS. DANIELLE STAYTON, MS. LESHAUN STEWARD, MS. JAMICA TOLLIVER, MR. ROBERT WELLS, MS. LEE, MS. WILLIAMS AND MS. CHIQUITA WISH THEM .

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ALL RIGHT HERE.

I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM TO YOU SO MUCH.

WE APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE.

I WANT TO DO MORE TO TWO ROWS SO I CAN GET YOU ALL THE PICTURE UH, WHILE EVERYBODY'S STILL IN HERE, I JUST WANTED TO THANK ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO STEPPED UP TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT OUR DISTRICT HAS NEEDED FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

AND, UM, I AM JUST SO PROUD THAT WE ARE GROWING OUR LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND, UM, I'M, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THIS PILOT KEEP ON GOING AND KEEP ON WORKING.

I AM PROUD THAT WE HAVE FINALLY HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE WE'RE THINKING BOLDER, WE'RE THINKING MORE INNOVATIVELY WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD, AND WE UNDERSTAND THE, UH, IMPORTANCE OF BUILDING OUR CAPACITY AND CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP IS ABSOLUTELY PARAMOUNT.

SO THANK Y'ALL ALL SO MUCH FOR PARTNERING AND WITH US.

UM, IT WAS SO NEEDED AND SO VALUABLE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE AT SOME POINT.

FORWARD WITH THE 20, 21 ENERGY STAR PARTNER OF THE YEAR, SUPERINTENDENT NAZIS, VICE PRESIDENT COLLINS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

BOARD MEMBER DIES TOO.

UH, JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

I THINK IT IS AN AMAZING PARTNERSHIP AND AN AMAZING ADDITION TO THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT AND THE NEW SUPERINTENDENT IS ADDING TO THE POT.

UM, THIS IS AN AMAZING PARTNERSHIP, AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UH, AND SUPERINTENDENT NORTH SEATS.

YES, I DO.

I ALSO DO WANT TO ALSO, UM, CONGRATULATE, UH, THIS PROGRAM VERY SUCCESSFUL FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN COMING IN AND LEARNING.

I THINK THE ONE THING I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT I THOUGHT WAS THE MOST UNIQUE THING OF THE PROGRAM, UH, WAS THE COMBINATION OF PEOPLE AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL AND CENTRAL OFFICE, UH, BEING ABLE TO BUILD CAPACITY GOING THROUGH.

AND SO, UM, UH, AS, UH, JULIO MAY TELL YOU, I ALREADY MADE A MEETING WITH HIM TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE GOING INTO A COHORT TWO MOVING FORWARD, BUT I THINK IT'S A GREAT WAY TO, UH, PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY AND ALSO HAVE OUR FOLKS LEARN AT DIFFERENT SETS OF SKILLS, WHICH I LOOKED THROUGH THE CURRICULUM, I THINK WILL BE VERY HELPFUL AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD A HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOL DISTRICT, THERE'LL BE THERE TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS.

SO LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.

AND WHEN IT'S ALSO CONGRATULATE ALL OF THE, UM, FOLKS WHO PARTICIPATED, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MOVING

[D.2. 2021 Energy Star Partner of the Year ]

I'M DON SAVOIR, UH, DIRECTOR OF THE ENERGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM WITH THE, THIS PAST APRIL, THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ANNOUNCED THE SELECTION OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM AS A 2021

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ENERGY STAR PARTNER OF THE YEAR.

THIS IS THE HIGHEST RECOGNITION IN THE ENERGY STAR PROGRAM.

AND, UH, IT'S AWARDED FOR SUPERIOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACHIEVEMENTS.

WE ARE THE FIRST AND ONLY LOUISIANA SCHOOL DISTRICT TO WIN THIS AWARD.

AND WE WERE ONE OF ONLY SIX SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHO WILL RECOGNIZE THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE BECAUSE IT VALIDATES OUR LEADERSHIP IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT, NOT ONLY AMONG THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN LOUISIANA, BUT ALSO ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AS WELL AS, UH, A COUPLE OF SENTENCES IN THE PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

YOU NOTIFICATION STATES, IT SAYS EPA, CONGRATULATIONS, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM ON WINNING ENERGY STAR, 2021 PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD.

THANK YOU FOR DELIVERING NEW STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE AND LEADING THE WAY IN ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTING OUR CLIMATE.

THIS IS A MAJOR RECOGNITION THAT'S ADDED TO AN ALREADY IMPRESSIVE LIST OF AWARDS THAT THE PROGRAM HAS ACHIEVED.

UH, IF YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR, UH, THE, THE DISTRICT WON THE, UH, ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN ENERGY ENGINEERS REGION FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT AWARD.

AND THAT'S WHERE, UH, WE WERE THE ONLY SCHOOL DISTRICT YOU SELECTED IN A 13 STATE REGION.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE FOR, UH, US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, GREEN RIBBON SCHOOL AWARD WINNERS, AND WE'RE WORKING ON MORE, UH, A PAST WINNER OF THE EPA ENERGY STAR NATIONAL BUILDING COMPETITION.

THAT WAS, UH, YOU CLAIBORNE A FEW, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO, AND NUMEROUS IS A STAR BUILDING CERTIFICATIONS.

NOW ON THE NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS AWARD WOULD BE PRESENTED AT AN OFFICIAL AWARD CEREMONY BY THE HEAD OF EPA IN WASHINGTON, DC, BUT DUE TO COVID, UH, THAT DID NOT TAKE THAT DIDN'T TAKE PLACE, ALTHOUGH I'M NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE HEAD OF EPA, NONETHELESS, I DO HAVE THE AWARD, SO IT'S TRULY AN HONOR TO PRESENT THE ENERGY, UH, THE EPA YOU'RE 2021 ENERGY STAR PARTNER OF THE YEAR AWARD TO EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM, SUPERINTENDENT, WOULD YOU CARE TO EXCEPT THE AWARD PLEASE? THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND NOW

[E.1. Monthly Financial Report ]

MOVING FORWARD WITH ITEM E ONE MONTHLY FINANCIAL REPORT FOR INFORMATION ONLY YES.

WILL BE DONE BY MS. KELLY LOPEZ.

ALSO PERSONNEL CHANGES MOVING FORWARD TO THAT.

THERE WAS NO PRESENTATION, NO PROBLEM.

[E.2. Personnel Changes ]

NO, AGAIN, NO PRESENTATION.

AND

[F. Update from Superintendent ]

NOW MOVING FORWARD WITH ITEM F ONE UPDATE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT THANK YOU.

VICE PRESIDENT COLLINS.

UM, UH, I WAS VERY EXCITED THAT WE, AS WE WERE ABOUT 20 DAYS AWAY FROM SCHOOL SHOULD BE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR.

UM, FIRST LET ME JUST ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL BE RETURNING BACK TO CENTRAL OFFICE, UM, IN OCTOBER.

UH, I KNOW WE HAD AN EARLIER DATE FOR THAT, BUT, UM, AFTER TALKING THROUGH, UH, WE WILL BE MOVING BACK, UH, THROUGH OCTOBER.

SO JUST WANTED FOR EVERYONE TO BE AWARE OF THAT.

UM, ALSO WANTED TO JUST SHARE, I KNOW I'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS FOR COVID AND THOSE THINGS.

UM, WE WILL BE MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON THAT.

UH, IN THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST, BEFORE WE GET BACK TO SCHOOL, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR HEALTH ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WHICH INCLUDES, UM, PHYSICIANS, UH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

UM, AND SO WE WILL BE SHARING WITH THE PUBLIC, WHAT THE PROTOCOLS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE.

UM, AS OF RIGHT NOW, AS PEOPLE ARE AWARE, WE ARE JUST MONITORING

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OF THE SITUATION AND ALSO, UM, TELLING FOLKS TO PLEASE GET VACCINATED.

UM, THE DELTA VARIANT, WHICH IS CURRENTLY OUT NOW, UH, 98%, OR JUST ABOVE 90% OF THOSE WHO ARE ACTUALLY SICK OR ACTUALLY IN, IN THE ICU'S ARE FOLKS WHO ARE, UM, NOT VACCINATED.

AND SO WE JUST TELL FOLKS TO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU, UH, STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOUR, UM, PHYSICIANS AND CONTINUE TO KEEP, UH, CONNECT WITH YOUR HEALTH.

SO I WANTED TO JUST, UH, LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT, BUT WE WILL BE SHARING WHAT THE SCHOOL YEAR WILL BE LIKE.

UH, BY THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST, BEFORE SCHOOL GOES BACK, UH, SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, UH, THIS WEEK WE HOSTED OUR FIRST EVER SCHOOL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR OUR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TEAMS. UM, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE DISTRICT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BRING OVER 300 SCHOOL LEADERS TOGETHER FOR A FULL WEEK OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEADERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO COLLABORATE TOGETHER, UH, AND HEAR FROM SOME NATIONAL SPEAKERS.

UH, WE HAVE FORMER SECRETARY OF EDUCATION, ARNIE DUNCAN THAT SPOKE TO HIM LEADERS HERE.

UM, AS WELL AS WE HAD THE SUPERINTENDENT, UH, ALBERTO CARVALHO, WHO IS THE, UM, MIAMI DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UH, SUPERINTENDENT WHO TALKED ABOUT A LOT ABOUT THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE THERE.

AND IT'S BASIC COMPARISONS ON HOW WE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT CAN CONTINUE TO, UM, BE IMPACTFUL AS A CITY DISTRICT FOR OUR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, UM, CENTRAL OFFICE RETREAT.

LAST WEEK, WE HELD OUR FIRST ALL HANDS CENTRAL OFFICER RETREAT.

WE HAD OVER 350 OF OUR ADMINISTRATIVE EMPLOYEES.

UH, WE WERE ABLE TO SHARE THE MISSION, THE VISION AND THE GOALS FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

UM, FOCUSING ON A CONSISTENCY, CLARITY, COHERENCE, AND THE COMMUNICATION ON PROVIDING SUPPORT TO OUR SCHOOLS, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR COMMUNITIES.

UM, THERE WAS A COMMITMENT BY EVERYONE TO WANT TO MAKE THIS A REALLY GREAT YEAR, UH, ESPECIALLY COMING FROM, UM, A VERY CHALLENGING YEAR THAT WE HAD.

UH, SO WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT MANY GREAT THINGS AND WANT TO, UH, RECOGNIZE THE WORK THAT OUR HR DEPARTMENT AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENT HEADS AND CHIEFS, UM, WORKING WITH OUR STAFF TO, TO DO THAT, UH, OTHER BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR US AS WE, UM, AS WE GET CLOSER TO SCHOOL YEAR, WE HAVE STUFF THE BUS, UH, IT'S A REMINDER TO PLEASE JOIN US ON JULY 28TH FOR THE ANNUAL STUFF, THE BUS EVENT, WE'RE EXCITED TO COLLECT SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR OUR STUDENTS AND TO PARTNER AGAIN WITH WBR Z FOR THIS COMMUNITY WIDE EVENT, UH, WE SHOULD BE IN, WE'LL BE, UM, THE LOCATION, UH, WE'LL BE ON COLLEGE DRIVE, IS THAT THE WALMART? AND SO JUST WANTING TO KNOW EVERYONE'S IN THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.

SO PLEASE COME BY, AS YOU BEGIN TO GEAR UP FOR THAT, I'M ALSO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL HAVE OUR BACK TO SCHOOL BASH.

UH, IT'S A REMINDER THAT WE'LL BE HOSTING THAT A CITY-WIDE BACK TO SCHOOL BASH ON AUGUST 7TH AT THE RAISING CANE RIVER CENTER.

UH, THANK YOU TO OUR PRESENTING SPONSORS, EXXON MOBILE, UH, MAYOR, PRESIDENT SHARON, WESTERN BRUNE, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, LAMAR COLE, UH, AND OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR STEPPING UP AND SUPPORTING OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

UM, WE WANTED TO MAKE THIS A HUGE EVENT WHERE CHILDREN WILL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE, UH, THINGS SUCH AS, UM, THERE'LL BE A KID ZONE.

THERE'LL BE BOOTHS FOR COMMUNITY, UH, SERVICES, UH, FOR PEOPLE WANT STUFF.

WE'LL HAVE ALSO KIDS GETTING HAIRCUTS, UM, AND OTHER THINGS TO GET THEM PREPARED FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR.

UM, SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU ALL BEING THERE WITH OUR, UM, BOARD MEMBERS.

UM, JUST WANTED TO ALSO SAY THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF FOR THE HARD WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE SUMMER TO PREPARE FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR.

THAT INCLUDES BOTH, UH, TEACHERS AND ALSO LEADERS AS WE'RE STARTING TO GEAR UP TO GO TO THE SCHOOL YEAR.

UH, SOMETIMES PEOPLE THINK OF THE SUMMER WHERE EVERYBODY'S OFF, BUT THEY'RE REALLY GEARING UP TO BE PREPARED FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE'RE JUST EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

UM, ALSO WANT TO, AGAIN, JUST ANNOUNCE THAT WE'RE HAVING SOME NEW THINGS SUCH AS BRINGING IN, UH, SPORTS AND OTHER THINGS INTO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

UH WE'LL FOR THE FIRST TIME HAVE ELEMENTARY, UH, SPORTS AND ALSO DOING MORE LITERACY WORK, UH, IN THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SO WE'RE JUST EXCITED TO BEGIN TO GEAR UP FOR THAT.

UM, PLEASE FEEL FREE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU, UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ANYONE HAS CONCERNS ABOUT, PLEASE CONTINUE TO CONTACT US AND, UH, GO TO OUR WEBSITE,

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EBR SCHOOLS, DOT ORG, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW WE CANNOT DO THIS WORK WITHOUT YOUR FEEDBACK.

UM, UH, PART OF OUR GOAL AS WE MOVE THIS WORK FORWARD IS TO IMPROVE OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE.

SO FAMILIES FEEL MORE CONNECTED TO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE FEEL PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE DO AS A PARISH MOVING THIS WORK TOGETHER AND MADAM VICE PRESIDENT.

THAT IS MY REPORT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

ANY REPORTS FROM BOARD APPOINTEES? UH, OKAY.

MOVING FORWARD WITH THEN

[H. Broadmoor Middle School Program and Grade Configuration ]

WITH ITEM H MONTH UNFINISHED BUSINESS, UH, BROADMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM AND GRADE CONFIGURATION CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE RECOMMENDATION TO ESTABLISH A SIXTH THROUGH 12TH GRADE CONFIGURATION AND PERFORMANCE ARTS MAGNET PROGRAM AT BROADMORE MIDDLE SITE.

CAN I GET A MOTION, UM, REAL QUICK? YES, SIR.

SUPERINTENDENT NARCIS IS, UH, UH, PROPOSED, UH, UM, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE AN EXCITING SCHOOL AND WALFORD, UM, YOU KNOW, BE SOMETHING THAT'S IN HIGH DEMAND, BUT I THINK WE STILL NEED MORE TIME TO STUDY IT, MAKE, MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO AND ALLOW FOR MORE INPUT, MAKE SURE WE DO HAVE A DEMAND AND THAT'S WHAT A NEW YORK COMMUNITY WANTS TO SEE.

SO WHAT, UM, THE MOTION I'M GOING TO MAKE IS THAT, UH, WE MOVED, WE MOVED THIS ITEM BACK TO THE OCTOBER COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, UM, UNLESS THERE'S A REASON TO MOVE IT TO THE BOARD MEETING THAT ANYBODY CAN, BUT, UH, BUT I, I RECOMMEND WE MOVE IT TO THE OCTOBER, UH, COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, AND THAT'S THE MOTION I'M MAKING? WELL, OKAY.

I HAVE A, UH, FIRST FROM BOARD MEMBER BALLOU AND A SECOND FROM MS. BARNARD BOARD MEMBER, BUT NOAH AND A BOARD MEMBER BERNARD REQUESTS TO SPEAK.

MR. BALLOU, WOULD YOU ENTERTAIN A FRIENDLY REVISION TO YOUR, YOUR MOTION? UM, JUST TO GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT MORE FLEXIBILITY SO THAT HE'S NOT BOUND BY THE OCTOBER DATE AND THAT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO PLACE IT ON THE AGENDA AT HIS CONVENIENCE WHEN HE FEELS HE'S READY? UH, CERTAINLY THAT THAT'S MAKES SENSE.

UH, I'LL AGREE TO THAT.

THANKS.

SO THE MOTION WOULD THEN BE TO EMOTION HAS SPOKEN ABOUT POEM, THE ITEM TO IT.

THEY NOT UNCERTAIN NOTE TO BE DETERMINED, RIGHT.

NOW MOVING FORWARD TO ITEM E A D S QUICK POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.

SEEING NO OTHER QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS TO SPEAK FROM THE BOARD, EXCUSE ME.

MOVING TO QUESTIONS FROM THE ART.

I MEAN, PUBLIC COMMENT.

YEAH.

UM, I'VE SPOKEN TO, UM, MANY CAPITAL HIGH ALUMNI, AND I AM WONDERING SINCE WE ARE HAVING A MOTION PUTTING THIS OFF, IF WE CAN ALSO AT THAT TIME, UM, WHENEVER IT'S CONVENIENT, UM, DISCUSS WHY NOT JOIN THESE TWO PROJECTS, CAPITAL HIGH ALUMNI WANT CAPITAL HIGH AND EBRS HANDS.

THEY WANT IT TO BE AN EBR SCHOOL.

SO WHY NOT USE CAPITAL HIGH IN ALL OF ITS GLORY FOR EDR AND TAKE THIS IDEA AND SPREAD IT OUT IN THE MORE SPACE AND PUT IT AT CAPITAL HIGH INSTEAD OF ROB MORRIS LIMITED SPACE, SEEING NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO, UH, ADDITIONAL REQUEST TO SPEAK FROM THE BOARD, HAD A SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

PLEASE VOTE THE MOTION CARRIES.

[G. Board Appointees ]

I'M SORRY.

I WAS ASLEEP WHEN YOU ASKED FOR COMMENTS FROM THE COMMITTEE, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ONE BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENT.

UH, THE VIPS SUMMER SOIREE, WHICH IS GOING

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TO BE DANCING THROUGH THE DECADES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY, AUGUST 27.

I MEAN, AUGUST 22ND.

AND IT'S GOING TO BE AT THE TERRACE OF THE RIVER CENTER BRANCH LIBRARY FROM FOUR TO 6:00 PM.

AND TICKETS WILL BE ON SALE THROUGH THE VIPS WEBSITE.

UH, THE TICKETS ARE $60 AND THEY'LL HAVE LIVE MUSIC, FOOD DRINKS, A SILENT AUCTION, AND A WINE TOSS.

SO IN A DANCE PERFORMANCE BY THE EVIL DANCE STUDIO.

SO ANY OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THAT ACTIVITY, UH, TO SUPPORT OUR VIPS WHO DO A LOT OF GOOD WORK, PARTICULARLY IN LITERACY PROGRAMS, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT VERY MUCH.

AND AGAIN, MY APOLOGIES, MATT, AND VICE-PRESIDENT FOR NOT BEING ON MY TOES.

NO PROBLEM.

AND CAN YOU MIND REPEATING THE DATE AND THE TIME? SURE.

IT IS SUNDAY, AUGUST 22ND AT THE TERRACE OF THE RIVER CENTER CENTER BRANCH LIBRARY FROM FOUR TO 6:00 PM.

THANK YOU, SIR.

UM, NOW MOVING FORWARD WITH THE CONSENT AGENDA BOARD MEMBER BERNARD, THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE TO BE APPROVED AS PART OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AND ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ROUTINE AND WILL BE ENACTED IN ONE MOTION.

MA'AM ALL RIGHT.

[I. Consent Agenda ]

THERE WILL BE NO SEPARATE DISCUSSION OF ITEMS UNLESS THE BOARD MEMBER, SO REQUESTS IN WHICH EVENT, THE AUDIO WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSIDERED AS AN ITEM ON THE REGULAR AGENDA FOR A SEPARATE VOTE PRECEDING THE LAST ITEM ON THE REGULAR AGENDA, 2021 EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM, STRATEGIC PLAN CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE 2021 EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM, STRATEGIC PLAN ITEM THREE GRANTS CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING GRANTS.

A ALBERTSON'S NOURISHING NEIGHBORS GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 TO THE CHILD NUTRITION DEPARTMENT FOR THE 2021 SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM, THE ADF GRANT AND THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 TO THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENTS CONNECT TO TEACH PRE EDUCATOR PATHWAY PROJECT DURING THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR ITEM FOR GRANTS PRE-K CONSIDERATION REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING 20 21, 20 22 PRE-K GRANTS, A CECIL J PICARD EARLY CHILDHOOD LA FOR ANY AMOUNT OF 5 MILLION, $679,200.

NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEING NON-COVERED PUBLIC SCHOOLS, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT IN S E C D IN THE AMOUNT OF $620,000 FOR 620,004 $60 BIRTH TO THREE-YEAR-OLD SEATS, B3 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2 MILLION, $53,083, FIVE MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING MOU EXPANSION OF PRE-K AND PRE-K FOUR SITES CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS FOR THE APPROVAL OF MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE EAST BEARISH PAIR OF SCHOOL SYSTEM, QUOTE, LEAD AGENCY AND CHILDCARE CENTERS.

MY CENTERS, CHARTER SCHOOLS AND NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $6 MILLION, 6 MILLION, $270,600 TO EXPAND PRE-K THREE.

AND PRE-K FOUR SEATS FUNDING SOURCE AS HER BIRTH TO THREE AND LA FOR SIX MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING MOU DUAL ENROLLMENTS CONSIDERATION REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THESE BEARS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD AND THE FOLLOWING A SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR BATON ROUGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGE BRCC TO PROVIDE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR FRANCISCO MINISTRIES OF OUR LADY UNIVERSITY, FRAN YOU TO PROVIDE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR BONDING SOURCE S C A SEVEN AND APPROVAL OF FISCAL AGENT CONSIDERATE AND A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE FISCAL AGENT CONTRACT BETWEEN THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM AND CAPITAL ONE BANK FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2021 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2024, INCLUDING ALL CURRENT PROVISIONS AND RATES EIGHT LOUISIANA COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRE CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE LOUISIANA COMPLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRE AS REQUIRED FOR THE 20 20, 20 21 FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE SPANISH PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM, NINE AGREEMENTS CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THEM, HE SPANISH PER SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE FOLLOWING A SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 TO PROVIDE CREDIT FOR TUITION FEES FOR AUTHORIZED STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY B TEACH FOR AMERICA TO PROVIDE UP TO SIX CORE MEMBERS FOR TWO INNOVATION NETWORK SCHOOLS, CLAIBORNE AND ELEMENTARY LIKE CLAIBORNE AND CAPITOL ELEMENTARY, NOT TO EXCEED $41,200 ANNUALLY, 10 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS, CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS BETWEEN THESE FAIR, FAIR SCHOOL BOARD AND THE FOLLOWING A DREAM BOX LEARNING AND CORPORATE, AND THE AMOUNT OF $17,864 TO PROVIDE MATHEMATICS AND STUDENT LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE SOURCE THREE ACTION TO BE ACHIEVED 3000 IN CORPORATE AND THE AMOUNT OF $1,391,090 TO PROVIDE LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS STUDENT LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE AS HER THREE ACTION TO SEE JASON LEARNING IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 TO PROVIDE STEM ACTIVITIES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE AS FOR THREE ACTION TO D ABID CENTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $27,395 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FUNDING SOURCES AT SCHOOL REDESIGN E ZEARN, AND THE AMOUNT OF 100, $10,000 TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY GRADES, MATHEMATICS, FUNDING SOURCE S OR TWO F BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL MECHANICAL COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF ITS LSU UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, L I S A R D IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 TO PROVIDE SPECIALIZED SUPPORTS FOR EDUCATORS TO MEET THE UNIQUE STUDENT NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FUNDING SOURCE, IDA ONE, ONE G VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, VIPS IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 AND $58,000 RESPECTIVELY FOR THE EVERYBODY READS AND EVERYONE COUNTS PROGRAMS, FUNDING SOURCES, TITLE ONE GENERAL FUND H MIRA V YEAH, LLC TO BROAD LITERACY, MATHEMATICS, AND CONTENT COACHING SUPPORT NOT TO EXCEED $50,000 FUNDING SOURCE PROXIMITY LEARNING.

I PROXIMITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $526,000 TO PROVIDE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 FUNDING SOURCE AS HER THREE ACTION, ONE 11 MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING FEDERATION REQUESTS FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE MEMORY OF THEM, MEMORANDUMS OF UNDERSTANDING MOU BETWEEN THE EAST BETTERS CAR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE FOLLOWING A LSU SOCIAL RESEARCH AND EVALUATION CENTER, S R E C TO ASSIST WITH THE STATEWIDE INITIATIVE TO GROW GOOD ATTENDANCE PRACTICES, THE JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF LOUIE, UH, BRIGHTER BATON ROUGE AND ACADIANA TO PROVIDE CURRICULUM ALIGNED WITH LOUISIANA STATE STANDARDS AND PROVIDE A ROBUST LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS FOCUSED ON WORK READINESS, FINANCIAL LITERACY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 12 OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE SEMI-ANNUAL FINANCIAL TAX PLAN UPDATE AND THE REVISED 20 20 20 21 TAX PLAN BUDGET FOR PROPOSITIONS ONE, TWO AND THREE 13 SOUTH BATON ROUGE CHARTER CONTRACT CONSIDERATION REQUESTS FOR THE APPROVAL OF A CHARTER SCHOOL CONTRACT WOULD HAVE BEEN EITHER IRISH PER SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SOUTH LOUISIANA CHARTER FOUNDATION FOR THE OPERATION OF SOUTH BATON ROUGE, CHARTER 14 KIPP NEW ORLEANS CHARTER CONTRACT CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF A CHARTER SCHOOL CONTRACT BETWEEN THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD AND KIPP NEW ORLEANS INCORPORATED.

15 FACILITY USE AGREEMENT, CONSIDERATION REQUESTS FOR AUTHORIZATION, THE SUPERINTENDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL TO NEGOTIATE A FACILITY USE AGREEMENT WITH AN OPTION FOR A LONG-TERM LEASE OF THE CAPITAL HIGH FACILITY WITH KIPP, AND TO RETURN TO THE BOARD FOR FINAL APPROVAL OF THE AGREEMENT AND LEASE 16 RFP PRACTICES, RFP FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES, CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP AN ISSUE, A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, RFP FOR FACILITY MANAGES SERVICES AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS, 17 RFP ENERGY EFFICIENCY SERVICES CONSIDERATION REQUEST TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO ENGAGE IN AN INDEPENDENT THIRD-PARTY CONSULTANT TO DEVELOP ISSUE AND EVALUATE REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS RFP FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY SERVICES, AND TO PROVIDE THE RELATED MATTERS 18 ADMINISTRATIVE CONTRACT TEMPLATE CONSIDERATION OF OUR REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF A TEMPLATE FOR A CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT FOR PROMOTIONAL APPOINTMENT 19 20 21, 20 22 STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES HANDBOOK AND DISCIPLINE POLICY CONSIDERATION OF OUR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF THE STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES HANDBOOK AND DISCIPLINE POLICY FOR THE 20 21 20 22 SCHOOL YEAR FOR THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH NOTED CHANGES, INCLUDING ALLOWANCE FOR NAVY BLUE BOTTOMS, 20 LITIGATION CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE RECOMMENDATION FROM GRINS SHAMBLIN, GENERAL COUNSEL EDRP SB, AND THE FOLLOWING MATTERS A JOSEPH MILES VERSUS TERRY G. CUMMINGS BERKLEY INSURANCE COMPANY, AND HE'S BEARISH PER SCHOOL BOARD DOCKET NUMBER 6 8 8, 7 41, SECTION 25 19TH JUDICIAL COURT, BATON ROUGE, PARISH OF HIS BEDROOM PARISH, BATON ROUGE, SAM LOUISIANA TO BARRAGE RELATED MATTERS, BE EBONY COLEMAN INDIVIDUALLY, AND ON BEHALF OF HER MINOR OF MINOR CHILD NAMED REDACTED VERSUS THE SPANISH PAIR SCHOOL BOARD.

AND I, SO THANK YOU ALL.

ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO PULL ANY ITEMS BOARD MEMBER DYSON? YES.

I WANT IT TO PULL ITEM TWO

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IS THAT ALL? YES.

BOY, LANA'S THANK YOU.

UM, I WASN'T GOING TO PULL ITEM, BUT I DID WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT ON ITEM 16.

I KNOW INSIDE OF THE, UH, RFP, THE MINORITY PARTICIPATION IS LISTED AT 20%.

HOWEVER, RIGHT NOW WE'RE CURRENTLY OPERATING AT 42%.

MY REQUEST IS THAT WE, UH, MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THAT, BUT ALSO THAT WE MOVE IT UP TO 50% MINORITY PARTICIPATION JUST TO KEEP IT CLEAN.

LET'S GO AHEAD AND PULL IT AND THEN YOU CAN, UM, MOTION.

SO, UH, CONNIE MADE A MOTION AND CAN I GET A SECOND ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? HOLD UP.

I KNEW IT WAS A REASON WHY I HIT THE WINDSHIELD, UM, ITEM FIVE AND ITEM 10, AND THEN THAT'S IT FOR ME.

ANY OTHER, SEEING NO OTHER REQUESTS TO PULL AN ITEM? SO ALTOGETHER THERE'S 2, 5, 10, AND 16.

YEAH, I, I HATE TO BE CONFUSING.

I ACTUALLY LET ME LEAVE ITEM FIVE N AND SO THEN FOR CLARITY, TWO, 10, AND 16, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT CONFUSION ON MY PART, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT.

WE ALSO NEED A SECOND ON THE MOTION, I BELIEVE.

MEMBERS AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF, UM, EXTERNAL, UH, BUSINESS COMMUNITY, UM, INPUT AS WELL.

SO CAN I GET A SECOND ON THE CONSENT AGENDA? THANK YOU, MADAM SECRETARY, IF YOU CAN CALL THE VOTE, I'M SORRY.

Y'ALL CNO BOARD REQUEST TO SPEAK ANY PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.

MINE IS THOSE ITEMS. IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT ITEM TWO, ITEM 16 OR ITEM 10, DON'T COME UP AT THIS TIME.

OKIE DOKIE.

COMING BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO BOARD COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES

[2. 2021 East Baton Rouge Parish School System Strategic Plan ]

BACK TO ITEM.

I HAD TO 2022, HONEY EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM, STRATEGIC PLAN CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE 2021 EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM.

STRATEGIC PLAN.

CAN I GET A MOTION? OKAY.

A BOARD MEMBER GO DAY AND LAMIS.

ARE THERE ANY REQUESTS TO SPEAK BY BOARD MEMBERS? YES.

GO AHEAD.

WITH THAT SAID, I JUST WANTED TO PULL THIS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT THE VIEWING AUDIENCE UNDERSTANDS THAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A STRATEGIC PLAN PROCESS, UM, WITH A LOT OF INTENSITY AND DELIBERATION AND THOUGHT, UM, PUT INTO IT.

WE'VE HAD, UH, WE'VE BEEN VERY INVOLVED AS BOARD

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AND THERE'S JUST BEEN, UH, SO MUCH WORK PUT INTO THIS IN SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

I APPLAUD, UH, OUR SUPERINTENDENT AND STAFF AND EVERYONE WHO HELPED PUSH THIS PROCESS ALONG, UM, SO QUICKLY, BUT DELIBERATELY.

AND, UM, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THE SUPERINTENDENT AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE PLAN, UM, FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

SO THEY UNDERSTAND, UM, THE KIND OF COMMITMENTS THAT WE'RE MAKING IN IT.

BOARD MEMBER DIRE, NO OTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK FROM BOARD MEMBERS NOW MOVING TO PUBLIC COMMENT ONLY ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN SCENE.

OH, ONE PERSON GOOD AFTERNOON OR GOOD EVENING IS, UH, IT'S QUITE A JOB FROM THE OTHER ROOM.

WE'RE NOT SITTING IN OUR NORMAL ROOM.

OH, WHAT A JOB I HAVE NOT PROBABLY SHE'S MINE A DISTRACTION.

UM, IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, I NOTICED THAT WE HAD QUITE BLANK AREAS.

THERE WASN'T A FIELD OUT, AND I'M WONDERING IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THOSE COMPLETED SO THAT THE ACTUAL BOARD CAN DO A REAL TRUE APPROVAL THAT REFLECTS EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.

ADDITIONALLY, OUR STRATEGIC PLAN DID NOT REFLECT ANYTHING THAT RELATES TO OUR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, ENGLISH, LANGUAGE LEARNERS, CHILDREN THAT ARE NON VERBAL.

WE HAVE A LARGE POPULATION, AND I KNOW THAT ONE OF THE THINGS ON THE CONSENT WAS ABOUT MASSART.

MASSART SPECIALIZES IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

THEY STARTED OUT WORKING WITH JUST CHILDREN WITH AUTISM AND THEY'VE LEARNED TO EMBRACE.

OH, AND WE JUST DID A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION TODAY ABOUT HOW THEY WORK WITH CHILDREN THAT ARE BLIND AND DEAF.

AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE CHILDREN LIKE THAT.

AND OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY WISE OF US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE INCLUDE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM TOO.

LET'S MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A STRATEGIC STRATEGIC PLAN THAT EMBRACES ALL KIDS NOT JUST SAW.

OH, I KNOW I TALK ABOUT NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY ALL THE TIME, BUT SOUTH DOWNS PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN SPECIALIZES IN CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

THAT'S WHERE MY CHILD WENT FIRST.

IT WASN'T BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE IT.

WASN'T BECAUSE WE WANTED TO, IT WAS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OPTION.

WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OPTION OF SCHOOLS IN OUR AREA THAT PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES FOR OUR CHILD WITH DISABILITIES.

SO I ASKED THAT WE INCLUDE IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, SOMETHING THAT EMBRACES EVERY SINGLE CHILD IN EVERY SINGLE AREA, BUT EVERY SINGLE CLASSROOM, EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF THE DAY, THAT'S THE NEW MODEL THAT WE HAVE EACH AND EVERY TIME LET MY CHILD AND OTHER CHILDREN LIKE HIM BE REPRESENTED IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.

ANY OTHER, FUCK.

ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT, SEEING NONE BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO BOARD COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

MOVING FORWARD TO ITEM 10 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS.

THE MOTION CARRIES.

[10. Professional Services Contracts ]

CAN I GET A MOTION? I REMEMBER, BUT NO WORD AND BOARD MEMBER LANTIS.

SEEING A REQUEST TO SPEAK FROM THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC COMMENT

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AND WHILE MS. POORLY IS COMING UP, UH, JUST SOME I'LL TAKE A MOMENT.

OH, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT.

I THINK YOU MIGHT NEED TO READ THE ITEM INTO THE RECORD BEFORE THE MOTION AND SECOND.

HI.

I APOLOGIZE.

OKAY, SO I HAVE TO READ, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS READ EARLY, I'M SORRY.

I THINK YOU NEED TO READ IT BACK IN.

YEAH.

READ IT AGAIN SINCE IT WAS COOL.

I DIDN'T REALIZE I HAD TO REDO IT.

UH, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO EACH AND EVERY ITEM, BUT I DO HAVE CONCERNS AROUND RECURRING EXPENSES AND HIGH NUMBERS THAT, UM, HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED IN OUR BOARD MEETINGS THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW HOW WE GONNA, ONCE THE RECURRENCE, ONCE THE ONE-TIME MONEY IS GONE, WE DON'T KNOW HOW WE BLEND UP, BE ABLE TO, UM, UH, FOR THE RECURRENT EXPENSE.

NO PROBLEM.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, CONTRACT CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE FOLLOWING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACTS BETWEEN THESE BANNERS PAST SCHOOL BOARD AND THE FOLLOWING DREAM BOX LEARNING INCORPORATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $117,864 TO PROVIDE MATHEMATICS STUDENT LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE AS SIR THREE ACTION TO BE ACHIEVED 3000 AND THE AMOUNT OF 1 MILLION, 1.1 MILLION $391,000 AND $90 TO PROVIDE LITERACY AND MATHEMATICS, STUDENT LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE ANSWER THREE ACTION TO JASON LEARNING AND THE AMOUNT OF 75,000 TO PROVIDE STEM ACTIVITIES FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FUNDING SOURCE AS A THREE ACTION TO AVID CENTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $27,395 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FUNDING SOURCE SCHOOL REDESIGN ZEARN IN THE AMOUNT OF $110,000 TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT AND STUDENT ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY GRADES MATHEMATICS.

IF I DIDN'T SUE US AS ARE TWO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURE AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF ITS LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 TO PROVIDE SPECIALIZED SUPPORTS FOR EDUCATORS TO MEET THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FUNDING, SOURCE ID ID, A 60 11 VOLUNTEERS AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE AMOUNT OF 25,858,000 RESPECTIVELY FOR THE EVERYBODY READS AND EVERYONE COUNTS PROGRAMS, FUNDING SOURCES, TITLE ONE IN GENERAL FUND MYRA VIA LLC TO PROVIDE LITERACY, MATHEMATICS AND CONTENT COACHING SUPPORT, NOT TO EXCEED $50,000 FUNDING SOURCE AS A THREE ACTION TO AND PROXIMITY LEARNING IN THE AMOUNT OF $526,000 TO PROVIDE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 FUNDING SOURCE AS THE THREE ACTION ONE.

AND WE HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER BERNARD AND LANA'S ALL RIGHT.

AND SO THEN BOARD MEMBER, HOW WOULD YOU HAVE SOME COMMENTS I'M AT A VICE PRESIDENT? UM, SO FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO THINK OF THE TEAM FOR SENDING OVER THE LIST OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO EVALUATE CONTRACTS GOING FORWARD.

BUT I STILL DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW IF WE, AS A COLLECTIVE HAVE SOLVED FOR THE INTENTIONS OF WHAT PATH WE ARE GOING ON WITH THIS MONEY.

SO I KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN INCREASE OF MONEY COMING IN THROUGH ESSER, AND WE HAVE INCREASED WITH MONEY COMING IN THROUGH ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

AND WE GOT AN EVALUATION TOOL THAT TELLS US THAT WE'RE GOING TO EVALUATE THE CONTRACTS IN X, Y, AND Z WAY.

BUT I STILL DON'T KNOW IF ME AS A BOARD MEMBER, IF I SEE A LONGTERM STRATEGY BEHIND HOW WE'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING THE MONEY.

SO I WOULD LIKE, UM, IF WE COULD GET LIKE MONTHLY REPORTS, LIKE LET'S SAY FOR INSTANCE, LIKE WE ARE USING A FUNDING SOURCE TO FUND A PARTICULAR, I DON'T KNOW, A COACH, A LITERACY COACH, A MATH COACH.

IF WE HAVE TO USE OTHER FUNDING SOURCES TO DEAN SOLVE OR FUND THOSE ISSUES, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD THAT SAYS, HEY, WHY WE HAVE TO USE ANOTHER FUNDING SOURCE AND WHY, WHAT WE PLAN FOR IS NOT HOW THE MONEY CAME BACK OR WAS UTILIZED FOR THE DISTRICT.

SO, UM, I APPRECIATE THE EVALUATION TOO, BUT I STILL WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE ABOUT OUR INTENTIONS ON HOW WE'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING THIS MONEY.

AND IF WE FALL SHORT, UM, HOW ARE WE SOLVING FOR THOSE, UH, THOSE SHORTCOMINGS? THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER HOWARD.

AND, UH, I JUST WANT TO SAY I HAVE SIMILAR CONCERNS, UH, THAT I'VE ALREADY EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF,

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AND SO FOR THAT REASON, I NEEDED TO PULL THIS IDLE AND, UH, BOARD MEMBER LANDS.

AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UH, TO THE DISCUSSION WHILE I'M NOT AGAINST PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS.

I DO THINK THAT IT IS TELLING THAT WE HAVE SO MANY AND WE ARE NOT OFFERING THOSE SAME SERVICES OURSELVES, BUT THIS IS WHAT I WOULD ASK OUR REQUEST IS THAT, UH, BEFORE WE VOTE ON SESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS IN THE FUTURE, CAN WE SEE DATA THAT SHOWS US HOW THESE SERVICES HAS WORKED IN OTHER DISTRICTS SIMILAR TO OURS BEFORE WE TAKE ON THESE SERVICES? BECAUSE ONE THING TO REEVALUATE AFTER THEY'VE ALREADY PERFORMED THE SERVICES FOR US, BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THESE ARE ACTUALLY GOOD FITS FOR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT BEFORE WE ACTUALLY VOTE ON IT.

YOU THANK YOU.

SEEING ALL OF THE BOARD COMMENT, GOING TO PUBLIC COMMENT.

MADAM VICE CHAIR, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT.

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH MR. LANDIS AND MR. HOWARD'S COMMENTS.

OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM FOR TOO LONG HAS HAD MANY, MANY DISTRICTS, MANY SCHOOLS THAT HAVE FALLEN IN FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS AND HAVE BECOME UNSERVED AND UNDERSERVED.

SUCH A SCOUT WILL BE A MAGNET HIGH.

IT'S GOT TO BE A MAGNET HIGH, HAVE FIVE PROGRAMS, BUT THEY HAVE A LARGE POPULATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES THAT DON'T GET SERVED.

WE NEED THE DATA TO ACTUALLY SHOW WHERE THESE KIDS ARE AND IT SHOULDN'T BE BEFORE THEY EVEN MAKE IT TO HIGH SCHOOL SO THAT WE CAN KNOW THAT THESE PROPERTIES TYPE OF CONTRACTS IS WORTH IS WORTH OUR MONEY.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOPING REOPENING PURSE WORTH METAL.

WHERE ARE THOSE KIDS PERFORMING ED? RIGHT NOW, WE TALKED ABOUT OPRAH POPULATION AT, UM, SHENANDOAH ELEMENTARY.

HOW WILL THOSE KIDS PERFORMING SO THAT THEY CAN GO TO MIDDLE SCHOOL? WE NEED THEM STUFF.

WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH, HOW MUCH MONEY RESOURCE WISE IT'S BEING SPLINT AT THOSE SCHOOLS VERSUS THE ONES IN THE OTHER UNDERPERFORMING AREAS SO THAT WE CAN SEE IF IT'S A MATTER OF PROGRAMMING OR IF IT'S A MATTER OF MONEY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

WE ONLY HAVE ONE COUNTRY OUT OF ALL OF THEM THAT WERE MENTIONED THAT IS TO SERVE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

LSU PROVIDED A REPORT THAT TALKED ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS AND DO NOT RECEIVE EDUCATION, WHICH CAUSES THEM TO FALL AND NOT BE ABLE TO BE A PART OF THE WORKFORCE AS AN EDUCATION SYSTEM.

IT IS OUR OBLIGATION AND OUR LEGAL DUTY TO MAKE SURE EACH CHILD EACH CHILD, HEY, FREE, APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION.

SO WHY, WHY ONLY HAVE ONE? THEY USE IDA FUND IDA FUN.

CAN WE HAVE MORE CONTRACTS THAT HELP OUR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES NOT FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS BECAUSE JUST LIKE YOU CURRENTLY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE TOO.

SO I THANK YOU.

AND I'M QUITE SURE CORRECT.

WOULD LIKE TO THANK Y'ALL TOO, BUT, UM, HE MORE FOCUSED ON WALDEN STAFF.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MS. CORLETT.

IF YOU COULD FOLLOW UP WITH ME WITH THAT, UNLESS YOU REPORT I'D APPRECIATE IT.

WOULD YOU HAVE IT MASTERED ENOUGH TO TRULY KNOW IT'S EXCELLENCE, BUT HOW MANY VACANCIES DO WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, TEACHERS AND CHILDREN.

NOT PROJECTING ENOUGH.

CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY.

UM, IT'S AN INTERESTING NIGHT WHEN I AGREE WITH OR MEMBER HOWARD BOARD MEMBER LATTICE AND PRESIDENT COLLINS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

SO I DON'T REALLY KIND OF KNOW WHERE TO GO FROM THERE.

UM, AS, AS AN EDUCATOR, THERE'S A RUNNING JOKE THAT EVERY TIME THEY BRING INTO PROGRAMMING, I IT'LL BE HERE TWO YEARS AND NEVER GO ON TO SOMETHING ELSE.

SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REALLY LEARN IT THAT WELL BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING ELSE IN TWO YEARS, EBR NEVER GIVES ANYTHING, A CHANCE TO WORK.

WE DON'T STICK WITH ANYTHING LONG ENOUGH TO LEARN IT.

A THIRD YEAR TEACHER IS BARELY GETTING THEIR HEAD ABOVE WATER.

SO WHY WOULD THE THIRD YEAR OF A PROGRAM,

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YOU WANT CHILDREN'S ALARM.

YOU WANT SUCCESS? PUT TEACHERS WITH CHILDREN, PAY US SOMETHING THAT KEEPS US OFF OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM AND POSSIBLY, AND TREAT US A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

AND POSSIBLY WE MIGHT HAVE MORE TEACHERS, I THINK, FROM THE LAST PERSONNEL CHANGES.

NOW.

I'M NOT THAT MAN.

NO, SHE PROBABLY KNOWS THAT NUMBER.

UM, MS. MATTHEWS, IF WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT IT'S OKAY.

YES, MA'AM OKAY.

JERMAINE PROGRAMMING ABOUT 200 VACANCIES, PROGRAMMING TEACHERS, PROGRAMMING.

IT'S PROGRAMMED IN US.

THAT'S A WASTE OF MONEY.

WE CAN DO IT.

GIVE US THE MONEY, GET MORE TEACHERS.

WE CAN DO IT.

THAT'S A WASTE OF MONEY BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING ELSE IN TWO MORE YEARS.

SEEING NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD BOARD MEMBER, BERNARD PROCEDURALLY, BECAUSE I MADE THE MOTION I'M REQUIRED TO VOTE.

AND SO I WOULD LIKE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BE THE MAKER OF THE MOTION OF THE SECOND, I'M HAPPY TO BE THE SECOND BECAUSE I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT AS THE SECOND.

BUT, SO I APOLOGIZE, BUT, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO WITHDRAW MY MOTION.

SOMEBODY ELSE WANTS TO MAKE THE MOTION.

AND MR. MILES IS GOING TO STILL SAY, FIRST IS BULLETIN.

OH LORD.

AND UH, THE BOARD, DO WE NEED TO COME BACK? WELL, YES.

I, THE NEW MOTION, SO RIGHT TO THE BOARD SEEING NO BOY COMMENT BACK TO THE PUBLIC, SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NONE.

MADAM SECRETARY, DO YOU HAVE IT? ALL RIGHT.

JUST LET US TELL US, UH, PLEASE VOTE WHEN YOU GET IT.

HE'S A BOY HOWARD.

NO, JUST, UM, AND SO I KNOW THAT THE EMOTION HAS CHANGED.

AND SO MS. BERNARD SAYS SHE CAN'T VOTE AGAINST HER EMOTION.

UM, AND I TOO HAVE CONCERNS AGAIN ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT, BUT THERE IS ONE ITEM THAT DOES FALL INTO HERE THAT, THAT GIVES ME PAUSE.

IF WE VOTE AGAINST THE MOTION AS A COLLECTIVE, UM, THE PROXIMITY OF OUR HARMONY LEARNING THING IS WOULD WE WERE GOING TO BE USING TO UTILIZE OUR VIRTUAL SCHOOLING FOR THE OVER 700 PLUS KIDS WHO HAVE SIGNED UP FOR VIRTUAL SCHOOLING.

SO IF YOU WOULD ACCEPT A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO CONSIDER THAT AS AN INDIVIDUAL ITEM, I WOULD, UM, WANT TO MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.

UM, IF, IF THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE GOING, UM, AS A BOARD, I JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I THINK THAT THAT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE DEAL WITH THAT.

UM, CAUSE IF WE VOTED AGAINST THAT THEN WERE PUTTING OURSELVES IN A BIND AS IT RELATES TO THE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION FOR THE KIDS WHO HAVE SIGNED UP FOR VIRTUAL SCHOOL FOR THIS YEAR.

SO, AND I I'LL DEFER TO OUR, UM, EXPERTS IN PROCEDURE, BUT I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT NEED TO BE A MOTION TO BIFURCATE THIS ITEM SINCE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF ITEMS CAN JOIN IF YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK ONE OUT.

UM, AND SO MR. HOWARD MIGHT NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO BIFURCATE, UH, AND REMOVE ITEM IS F I, UM, FROM THAT GROUPING AND CONSIDER IT SEPARATELY.

WELL, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO BIFURCATE ITEM I FROM THIS MOTION AND CONSIDER IT SEPARATELY.

AND HE'LL NEED A SECOND FOR THAT.

THERE'S A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.

YES, SIR.

BYE-BYE AND WE'LL NEED COMMENTS, BOARD AND AUDIENCE COMMENTS.

IF THERE'S SOME CONCERN ABOUT THIS WHOLE PACKAGE, UH, AND YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO DANCE AROUND WITH, YOU KNOW, IN AREAS THAT, THAT WE SHOULDN'T.

BOARD MEMBER WHERE JACKSON, THANK YOU.

MADAM MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THESE AND INDIVIDUALLY OR, OR AS, UH, MR. HOWARD MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT PROXIMITY LEARNING, UH, I HAVE A REAL CONCERN FOR VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND, UM, EVERYBODY READS AND EVERYBODY COUNTS IF,

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BUT, UH, I DO HAVE A CONCERN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THE, THE, UM, THE REST OF THESE GUYS, SO TO SPEAK, BUT I HAVE TO KNOW THIS.

UM, UH, MS. , MS. BERNARD, EXCUSE ME, BOARD MEMBERS.

HOW WOULD, WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE FRIENDLY TAKE? WHO VIPS AS WELL? YEAH, I'M FINE WITH INCLUDING GRIPS IN THE BIFURCATION IF THAT'S OKAY.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU GIVE ME THE SPECIFICS? I'M SORRY, MR. HOWARD, GIVE ME SO WHAT MS. JACKSON SUGGESTED.

SO I BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS CONCERNS WITH PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACTS WITHIN THIS PACKAGE.

SO HOW THEY'RE PACKAGED TOGETHER MATTERS.

SO GOING FORWARD, I THINK WE NEED TO CONSIDER HOW WE PACKAGE THINGS TOGETHER, BUT FOR THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION I'VE ASKED TO BIFURCATE AND WHICH IS PROXIMITY LEARNING.

MS. WARD JACKSON IS I ACTION TO BIFURCATE HOW WELL I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SITUATION IS INCLUDED.

YEAH, I WOULD, I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT SEPARATE THAN RISK LOSING IT.

IF, IF THIS, IF THE OTHERS GO DOWN, THAT'S ALL.

SO SHE WANTS TO FOR KG.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO DO TWO SEPARATE REPUTATIONS OR IF WE CAN INCLUDE THEM ALL TOGETHER.

SO THE MO THE MOTION WOULD BE TO BIFURCATE THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT INTO ITEMS I ITEMS G AND THEN THE REMAINING ITEMS. SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THREE DIFFERENT ITEMS TO CONSIDER, CORRECT.

THE BOYS ARE IN AGREEMENT.

THAT'LL BE THE WAY THE MOTION READS.

BOARD MEMBER, WHERE JANICE .

SO YOU HAD NO FURTHER COMMENTS LAWRENCE TO THE AUDIENCE YEAH.

I FULLY SUPPORT BELL SEPARATIONS.

AND WHAT'D WE SUPPORT DOING VOTING YES.

TO THE PROXIMITY AND THE BIBS THANK YOU.

BOARD MEMBERS, UH, HOWARD, AND WHERE JACKSON? UM, NOT IN OBJECTION.

I ACTUALLY THINK THAT IT WOULD BE WISE CAUSE ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE QUESTIONED ABOUT THE ITEM THAT I HAVE MR. HOWARD, UH, FULL REPORT PULLED AWAY IS THE DAM, WHERE WOULD THEY BE? THE, WHERE THEY HAVE DEBT, HOW MUCH THAT WILL IT PROVIDE, WHERE THAT THAT'LL BE ACCESSIBLE TASK FOOD SYSTEM AND HOW QUICK.

SO THEN WE CAN KNOW IF IT'S NOT WORKING, HOW QUICK WOULD IT BE ABLE TO CHANGE? HOW LONG WILL IT TIES INTO THAT CONTRACT? ARE WE TIED TO THIS CONTRACT FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR, OR, OR DO WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE TIED TO IT FOR A SEMESTER AND SEE IF IT WORKS AND THEN CHANGED TO A DIFFERENT ONE? IF IT'S NOT, UM, ALSO DOES IT HAVE A BREAKDOWN IN DATA, AS IT RELATES TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES? I HAVE TO STAY TRUE TO MY HEART THAT OUR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES DO NOT GET SERVED.

AND OFTENTIMES WHEN WE TRACK DATA, WE DO NOT TRACK THAT UP ON THEM, WHICH IS WHY LSU AND THEIR REPORT TALKED ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY OUR STATE IS LOSING IN FUNDING, IN TAXABLE FUNDING, FROM PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND ARE BEING ABLE TO BE EMPLOYED.

SO I KNOW THAT WE HAVE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN VIRTUAL SCHOOL, BUT I THINK THAT IT IS IMPERATIVE AND PRUDENT OF US TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT DEBT SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY USE IT BECAUSE WE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE TICKS ALL THE TIME, BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO HAVE STATISTICS WHEN IT REALLY COUNTS.

AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES.

SO AGAIN, I THANK YOU, MR. HOWARD, AND I THANK YOU, MS. WHERE JACKSON FOR THOSE APPARENTLY IMPLEMENTED EMOTIONS.

IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ACTUALLY ALREADY UTILIZE SOME OF THESE SERVICES SUCH AS EARN AND ACHIEVE 3000, HOWEVER, WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY DATA BACK ON IT.

NO OTHER, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BULL.

WHAT WOULD WE HAVE SOME, UH, PUBLIC, I MEAN, SOME BOY COMMENT.

UM, THANK YOU, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT.

AND I'LL BE REALLY BRIEF.

UM,

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SO MY REQUEST WOULD BE PROBABLY NOT TONIGHT, OBVIOUSLY.

UH, BUT AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET DATA ON HOW EFFECTIVE THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN THUS FAR? HOW MANY SCHOOLS, OUR STAFF MEMBERS ARE CURRENTLY USING IT AND HOW LONG WE'VE USED IT IN OUR DISTRICT? I WOULD, THAT WOULD BE VERY, VERY HELPFUL.

UH, THANK YOU FOR MAMMO BERNARD, MR. HOWARD, YESWARE JACKSON, IF I'M GOING TO, IF YOU'LL INDULGE ME FOR JUST A MINUTE, AND I APOLOGIZE COLLEAGUES, ALFRED'S BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF ITS LOUISIANA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, L A S I R D IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 TO PROVIDE SPECIALIZED SUPPORTS FOR EDUCATORS TO MEET THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FUNDING, SOURCE ID SIX 11, HATE TO DO THIS TO US, BUT I WOULD REQUEST THAT WE BIFURCATE THAT ONE AS WELL.

SO THAT WE'RE BIFURCATING F G N I, IF MR. HOWARD DOESN'T HAVE ANY OBJECTION, THAT WOULD JUST MEAN THAT WE WOULD GO TO THE BOARD AND THEN BACK TO THE AUDIENCE AND BACK TO THE BOARD.

SO I THINK THAT WHAT THEY'VE ALREADY DONE, IT'S BEEN ALREADY, OH, I'M SORRY.

I THINK, UH, MS. WADE JACKSON WANTED HERS TO BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.

UM, SO THERE'S A BIFURCATION OF ITEM G UH, MINUS ITEM.

I, AND I MEAN, IF IT, CAN YOU JUST ADD F AS A SEPARATE BIFURCATION? YEAH.

I'M NOT SURE IF WE CAN, IF WE CAN, WE CAN ADD IT TO MINE IF THAT'S POSSIBLE, BUT, UM, UM, I NEED TO BE CERTAIN, I, I'M NOT SURE WE HAVE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION ON THE FLOOR.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO FURTHER FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS OR SUBSTITUTES.

WE ALWAYS CAN, AND IT HASN'T BEEN VOTED ON, AND THAT WOULD BE UP TO MR. HOWARD, WHO IS THE MAKER AND ME AS THE SECOND.

SO IF MR. HOWARD IS IN AGREEMENT, SO ITEM, ITEM G AND ITEM IT'S IT'S F G N I THE LAST THREE.

SO THANKS.

Y'ALL IS THAT OKAY, MR. HOWARD? YOU OKAY WITH THAT? OKAY.

AND SO I NEED TO GO ANOTHER ROUND WITH THE FRIENDLY YEAH.

UM, YES, I WOULD.

THAT'S THE NAZIS.

I DO SEE YOU, BUT I'M GONNA JUST, I'M GONNA DO THE, OKAY.

UH, SEEING NO BOOK COMMENT BACK TO THE PUB, UH, TO THE PUBLIC, SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO BOARD COMMENT, UH, SUPERINTENDENT NORTH SEAS, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

PROGRESS ON ACCELERATING PROGRAMS. UH, ONE THING WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON TREMENDOUSLY IS TO STOP ALL OF THESE ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS. WHEN I CAME ON, WHEN WE DID OUR AUDIT OF THE ACTUAL SCHOOLS, THIS RANDOM APPROACH TO LETTING SEE WHAT IMPACTS OR DOESN'T IMPACT, WHERE WE DON'T HAVE DATA AS A SCHOOL SYSTEM, MEASURING ALL OF THE PROGRAMS THAT VARIOUS SCHOOLS HAVE DONE ON THEIR OWN.

VICE PRESIDENT COLLINS.

I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE BOARD, UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE IMPORTANCE OF US TO EVALUATE PROGRAMS, UH, WHICH I, 100% AGREE AS WE PUT INTO THE CONTRACTS TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH WHAT WE INVEST IN.

I THINK THAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT THING TO DO, BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CAUTION US THAT IF WE MICROMANAGE EVERY SINGLE THING THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, AND WE DO NOT PROVIDE CONSISTENCY FOR PERFORMANCE ACROSS SCHOOLS, SO THEY CAN BE ABLE TO DO THEIR WORK, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAD PUT TREMENDOUSLY IN TRYING TO BRING A CONSISTENT PROGRAM.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE DYSFUNCTION THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE RIGHT NOW.

THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE HAD THAT SCHOOL LEADERS ACROSS THIS SYSTEM HAVE ASKED IS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO CONSISTENTLY MEASURE PROGRESS IN A WAY WITH SUPPORT FOR THE WORK IN CLASSROOMS AND NOTION THAT WE BELIEVE A TEACHER CAN DO IT BY THEMSELVES WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OR PROGRAMS TO HELP ACCELERATE GREAT PERFORMANCE IS NON-EXISTENT.

WHAT I DO AGREE ON IS I UNDERSTAND THE NOTION OF AUTONOMY AND PROVIDING OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOOLS TO DO THINGS.

BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE HERE, UM, UM, THEY HAVE HAD IMPACT.

AND I DO AGREE WITH, I BELIEVE BOARD MEMBERS, I CAN REMEMBER AS A BOARD MEMBER ATLANTA, OR HOW HE SAID, LET'S LOOK AT OTHER DISTRICTS THAT HAVE SIMILAR TO OUR DISTRICT HAVE HAD PERFORMANCE.

ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS, DREAM BOX ACHIEVE 3000, UM, HAVE HAD

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AND I THINK WE HAVE TO HAVE BASELINE APPROACH TO THIS WORK.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT I'M CLEAR ABOUT THE COMMITMENT FOR US TO MEASURE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAM 100%.

BUT WHAT I AM ASKING THE BOARD IS THAT PLEASE NOW US TO START WITH THE BASELINE APPROACH, TO SHOW THE EVALUATION AND PROGRESS OF THE PROGRAM AND ALLOW US TO WORK WITH OUR TEACHERS WITH A PROGRAM OVER TIME.

BECAUSE ANOTHER CHALLENGE WE'VE HAD IS THAT WE HAVE MADE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGES, AND WE DON'T SEE A RESULT HAPPEN QUICKLY THAT WE HAVE AND ALLOW FOLKS TO BECOME USED TO IT PROVIDES SUFFICIENT, SUFFICIENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

AND THOSE THOSE OTHER COMPONENTS, EVEN A COMMENT THAT WAS MADE, WHO SAID, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH PUBLIC COMMENT WAS, BUT THEY SAID EVERY TIME THIS DISTRICT HAS DONE SOMETHING, IT HAS CHANGED.

MID-COURSE IT WOULDN'T ALLOW IMPLEMENTATION THOSE THINGS.

I WOULD JUST SAY IT IS HARD TO HOLD ME AS YOUR SUPERINTENDENT ACCOUNTABLE.

IF YOU ARE MICROMANAGING EVERY SINGLE MOVE THAT I MAKE IN THE SENSE OF PROGRAMMING FOR SCHOOLS IN THE SYSTEM, WE ARE AT A PLACE WHERE WE HAVE TO PUT PROGRAMS THAT WE THINK ARE PROVEN EFFECTIVENESS.

THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT ARE BY THE STATE CONSIDERED TO BE EFFECTIVE.

AND SO OUR JOB IS WE ARE TRYING TO ENSURE THERE IS CONSISTENCY ACROSS THAT.

AND SO MY ASS OF THE BOARD IS ALLOWED ME TO SHOW YOU THE DATA AS YOU SHOULD HOLD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PROGRAMS YOU HAVE.

AND ALSO ALLOW ME TO SHOW EFFECTIVENESS, BECAUSE ONE QUESTION WE HAD WITH PROGRAMS THAT WERE ACCEPTED BEFORE I ARRIVED, THE MULTITUDE OF PROGRAMS THAT OUR TEAM HAVE LOOKED AT, THERE HAS BEEN NO DATA ON WHETHER THEY WORKED OR NOT.

AND THE BOARD SPENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS APPROVING THAT FROM THE LAST PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS.

AND SO I ACCEPT THAT RESPONSIBILITY.

THAT'S WHY I'M EXCITED ALSO ABOUT OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

WE HAVE CLEAR DATA TO SHOW WHETHER WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS OR NOT.

I'M EXCITED ABOUT BOARD MEMBER.

HOW ARE WE? HE HELPED PUSH, I THINK ALSO WITH VICE PRESIDENT COLLINS AROUND A CONTRACT TO ENSURE THE VALUATION OF PROGRAMS. I THINK THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO TO GO DOWN THAT, BUT WE'RE, WE ARE 20 DAYS FROM SCHOOL AND I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT BY US BIFURCATING THIS AND GOING THROUGH ALL THESE VARIOUS WAYS ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, IF IT DOES NOT PASS THAT OUR CHALLENGE WILL BE IS THAT IT WILL SLOW US DOWN AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

WE HAVE OUR TEACHER LEADERSHIP WEEK COMING UP.

THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER FACTORS THAT WILL IMPACT THIS.

SO I WOULD JUST ASK THE BOARD TO HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE AS A SUPERINTENDENT IF THE EFFECTIVENESS IS NOT WORKING, BUT DO NOT MICROMANAGE IN THIS PARTICULAR WAY.

THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT.

UM, MIGHT I JUST SAY, I AGREE, I'M SURE ALL BOARD MEMBERS AGREE THAT, UH, ACADEMICS AND PLANNING AROUND ACADEMICS IS A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE WAREHOUSE.

THAT'S WHAT I, NOBODY THAT I RECALL TONIGHT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT, UH, THAT ASPECT.

WE HAVE A LEGAL FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY, AND WE HAVE ASKED PRIOR TO THIS MOMENT TO SHOW US HOW WE CAN WITH GOOD, CONSCIOUS, CONSIDERING OUR LEGAL, OUR LEGAL, LIKE, IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG, FIDUCIARY THAT'S ON US.

THAT'S NOT, NOT THAT YOUNG WHEEL HOUSE.

THE BOAT IS GOING TO HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE OUR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITY.

SO IT'S NOT MICROMANAGEMENT FOR US TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED.

UM, AND I WAS NOT GOING TO MAKE REFERENCE TO A PREVIOUS PROGRAM AND FOR THAT VERY REASON, BUT SINCE SOME THINGS WERE BROUGHT UP, THERE IS NO DATA OR THERE'S LIMITED DATA

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ON OUR PREVIOUS PROGRAMS. NOT BECAUSE THE DISTRICT DIDN'T DO HIS JOB IT'S BECAUSE WE RECENTLY JUST MADE A LOT OF CHANGES, UH, IN THE SPIRIT OF IMPROVING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS BEFORE YOU GOT HERE.

SO THERE'S NO DATA IN SOME SITUATIONS BECAUSE IT HADN'T BEEN GIVEN THEM ENOUGH TIME TO SHOW, UH, WHICH ALSO COULD ARGUABLY BE MEAN THAT WE DON'T KNOW THAT IT NECESSARILY NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.

THAT PART IS NEITHER HERE NOR THERE IN TERMS OF, IN TERMS OF OUR BOARD VOTE, IN TERMS OF OUR BOARD VOTE, THOUGH, WE NEED TO KNOW THAT WE NOT PUTTING OURSELVES ON THE HOOK WITHOUT A PLAN OF ACTION, UH, TO, TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL SHORTFALLS IN THE FUTURE, AS WELL AS THE OTHER CONCERNS THAT MY OTHER COLLEAGUES, UH, ADDRESSED.

UH, AND MY LAST COMMENT IS THAT CORRECT? CURRICULUM CHANGE, IT CHANGES, EXCUSE ME, DIFFERENCES IN CURRICULUM OR DIFFERENT CAMPUSES.

WELL, NOT NECESSARILY RANDOM.

IT WASN'T A REFLECTION OF A DESIGN OF THE DESIGN OF THE DISTRICT AT THE TIME TO HAVE SOME AMOUNT OF EQUITY.

CERTAIN CAMPUSES THERE'S IS THAT THERE'S NOT, IT, IT WAS A CHOICE NOT TO MAKE A COOKIE CUTTER APPROACH.

AND I DON'T, I'M NOT, AND I DON'T SAY THAT TO SAY THAT YOUR APPROACH WOULD BE COOKIE CUTTER.

I JUST WANT, SINCE THAT WAS PUT OUT THERE, I DON'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO THINK.

WE JUST WOULD HAVE BEEN WILLING TO DO ONE THING.

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS MADE INCREMENTAL PROGRESS.

IF WE CAN'T, WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THERE.

HAVEN'T BEEN SOME, UH, MEANINGFUL, UH, THOUGHTS TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY, UH, BOARD MEMBER WHERE JACKSON, THANK YOU.

UM, MAYBE I'M MISUNDERSTANDING SOMETHING HERE, BUT, UM, UM, I'LL JUST SAY THIS, UM, I SUPPORT THE WHOLE PACKAGE BECAUSE, UM, THIS IS WHAT OUR SUPERINTENDENT IS REQUESTING AND I'M SURE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RESEARCH BEHIND IT.

UM, BUT WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT POSSIBLY MOVING SOMETHING OUT, OR MAYBE THERE WAS SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME THINGS IN HERE, I GOT A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT VIPS.

SO, UM, I, AND YOU KNOW, I REALLY DON'T, I CAN'T SEE ANYBODY WANTING TO NOT SUPPORT, UH, EVERYBODY READING, EVERYBODY COUNTS, BUT, UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE, MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I SUPPORT THIS PACKAGE.

I JUST WOULDN'T WANT TO, DIDN'T WANT TO RISK, UM, LOSING SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW IS WORKING VERY WELL IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

SO WHICHEVER WAY THIS GOES, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ALL UNDERSTAND, UM, MY CONFUSION IN SO MANY WORDS.

YEAH.

I DO SUPPORT THE WHOLE PACKAGE SUPERINTENDENT.

I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO RISK, UH, LOSING VIPS BY MAKING THAT SUGGESTION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH BOARD MEMBER WHERE JACKSON BOARD MEMBER LANA'S.

I JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY CLARIFY MY REQUEST BECAUSE I HEARD A FEW BUZZWORDS THAT WENT OUT, UH, ONE OF WHICH WAS DISFUNCTION.

AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BASELINE DATA OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW YEARS, THIS PREDATES YOU, MR. SUPERINTENDENT.

SO THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU, BUT I WOULD ARGUE THAT WE DO HAVE THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR STRATEGIC PLAN UNDER YEAR 16 THROUGH 20, THIS IS THE BASELINE DATA.

AND SO BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS DATA, IT MAKES US WONDER, OR I'LL JUST USE MYSELF.

IT MAKES ME WONDER WHETHER OR NOT THESE PROGRAMS ARE ACTUALLY WORKING BECAUSE THIS DATA SHOWS THAT WE'VE HAD SOME SERIOUS DECREASES AND DECLINES AND OUR, UH, NOT JUST ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT ALSO OUR ACADEMICS.

SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE PULL THESE PROGRAMS. I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE SCRATCH THEM.

WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT A LOT OF, SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE ACTUALLY REOCCURRING SERVICES THAT WE'RE RECEIVING AGAIN.

AND IT'S ASKING FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, WHICH IS WHY I WANTED TO, WHILE I MAKE THE REQUEST, CAN WE PLEASE SEE WHETHER OR NOT THESE PROGRAMS ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN WORKING OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW YEARS, NOT TO SAY WE HAD TO SCRATCH IT THIS YEAR, BUT WHEN IT COMES UP NEXT YEAR AND WE HAD THAT DATA IN FRONT OF US, WE MAY SAY, NO, LET'S NOT GO IN THIS DIRECTION.

LET'S CHOOSE TO GO IN ANOTHER DIRECTION.

SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.

THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER LAND IS SEEN NO OTHER BOARD, UH, REQUEST

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TO SPEAK.

HAVE WE ALREADY GONE TO THE PUBLIC ON THIS ONE? OKAY.

SO BACK TO THE PUBLIC AND THEN TO THE BOARD SAYING NO OTHER BOARD REQUESTS TO SPEAK, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE LUBBOCK MOTION.

YEAH, PLEASE REFRESH US.

THIS IS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO BIFURCATE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, CONTRACTS, AND THE ITEM F ITEM G ITEM I AND THE REMAINING ITEMS TO BE CONSIDERED IN GLOBAL.

UM, AND JUST ADDITIONAL CLARITY.

THIS IS ONLY ON THE BIFURCATION IS NOT TO SAY WE ACCEPT IN THE WRIST.

IT'S NOT GOING TO POP UP.

WELL, LET ME DRIVE.

GO AHEAD, MS. COLLINS, THE FIRST BIFURCATION YOU COULD TELL WHICH ONE.

AND SO, YEAH, ITEM THAT WAS BIFURCATED IS ITEM F BY A BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY IN AGRICULTURE.

WELL, I WAS JUST GOING IN ORDER.

AND AGRICULTURE AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE ON BEHALF OF IS LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, LAZARD IN THE AMOUNT OF 50,000 TO PROVIDE SPECIALIZED SUPPORTS FOR EDUCATORS TO MEET THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES FUNDING SOURCE D HMM.

UH, FIRST BY A BOARD MEMBER HOWARD AND SECOND BY A BOARD MEMBER.

BERNARD.

SEEING NO BOARD, UH, COMMENT, ANY PUBLIC COMMENT OKAY.

WE STRONGLY APPROVE, UM, HAVING A CONTRACT THAT USED THE IDA FUNDS THAT IS GOING TO BENEFIT CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

WHEN I SAY CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES USING THE IDA FUNDS, I'M TALKING ABOUT OUR CHILDREN THAT ARE EITHER TWICE EXCEPTIONAL, WHICH RIGHT NOW SCHOOL SYSTEM DON'T HAVE THAT MANY AND ARE CONSIDERED TWICE EXCEPTIONAL.

UM, BUT OUR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A REAL DISABILITY, NOT JUST THE CHILDREN THAT ARE IN GIFTED, TALENTED.

UM, SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PROVIDE MORE THINGS THAT HELP OUR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.

AND I'M QUITE SURE.

AND MY CHILD WOULD LOVE TO SAY THANK YOU.

AND THAT THAT'S HOW MUCH IT MEANS

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TO HIM.

MORE, MORE RESOURCES, MORE PROGRAMMING.

IT ACTUALLY HELPED THEM TO HAVE FREE, APPROPRIATE PUBLIC EDUCATION.

UH, BEFORE I, FOR FORWARD WITH ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT, I'M REALIZING I MUST NOT UNDERSTOOD.

WHEN I ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION, I THOUGHT THE PREVIOUS WAS A PRIMARILY PROCEDURAL VOTE TO ALLOW US TO SEPARATE THOSE ITEMS AND THEN GO BACK AND ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT OKAY.

SO WE STILL NEED TO GO BACK TO EIGHT THROUGH E I MEAN THE OTHER ITEMS. OKAY.

SO AFTER WE FINISHED THIS ONE, I'LL GO BACK TO THE NO, YOU'LL HAVE TO.

THANK YOU, SIR.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT WISDOM FROM YOUR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE.

I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO MISS MYSELF.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

SEEING NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING NO OTHER BOARD COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES MOVING FORWARD WITH BIFURCATED ITEM G VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE AMOUNT OF 25,008 AND 58,000 RESPECTIVELY FOR THE EVERYBODY READS AND EVERYONE COUNTS PROGRAMS, FUNDING SOURCES, TITLE ONE AND GENERAL FUND.

CAN I GET A MOTION BOARD MEMBER HOWARD AND BOARD MEMBER LANDED? NO BOARD COMMENT.

ANY PUBLIC COMMENT SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD SEEING NO BOY COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES BEFORE NOW WITH BIFURCATED ITEM PROXIMITY LEARNING AND THE AMOUNT OF 526,000 TO PROVIDE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 FUNDING SOURCE AS THE THREE ACTION.

ONE, RIGHT.

AND SO THAT IS A FIRST BIBLE MEMBER HALLWAY AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER.

NO, UH, I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING BOARD MEMBER.

HOW WOULD YOU, WELL, IT'S PROBABLY NOT APPROPRIATE IF BOARD MEMBERS MENTIONED THAT THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT OUR VIRTUAL SCHOOL IN RESPONSE TO THE, TO THE COVID.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT'S WHAT THAT IS.

YES .

I UNDERSTAND THE PROXIMITY FROM MY UNDERSTANDING PROXIMITY LAMINATE IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO USE, WHAT STUDENTS WHO ENACTED AND SAID THAT THEY WANTED TO DETAIN VIRTUAL SCHOOL ON A FULL-TIME BASIS.

WHEN THE FALL SEMESTER OPENS UP IN THE FALL.

FROM MY UNDERSTANDING WE HAVE A ATTENDANCE OR ENROLLMENT OF OVER 600 STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY INDICATED THAT THEY PLAN TO UTILIZE, UM, VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION FOR THE FALL SEMESTER, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THAT'S HOW IT WORKS.

WOULD YOU LIKE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION? NO.

NO.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WHAT THAT WAS CAUSE IT'LL IT'LL FIT MY BOAT.

AND SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND SEEING NO OTHER BOARD COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, UH, BACK TO THE PUBLIC, SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, MADAM SECRETARY, CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE VOTE.

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THE MOTION CARRIES.

SO NOW GOING BACK AND CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING ITEMS IN GLOBAL, I DO, I NEED TO READ ALL OF IT.

ITEM, A DREAM BOX LEARNING INCORPORATED IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR, ONE HUNDRED $17,864.

I JUST, I WAS GOING TO SAY A, B, C, D ALL RIGHT.

ITEM B ACHIEVED 3000 IN THE AMOUNT OF 100, 1 MILLION, $391,090 ITEMS. SEE JASON LEARNING AND THE AMOUNT OF 75,000 ITEM D AVID CENTER AND THE AMOUNT OF 27, 300 AND 900, 5,000 ITEM E ZEARN.

AND THE AMOUNT OF 110,000 AND ALSO ITEM H MIRROR VIA L L C TO PROVIDE LITERACY, MATHEMATICS, AND CONTENT COACHING SUPPORT, NOT TO EXCEED $50,000.

EXCUSE ME.

UH, AND CAN I GET A SECOND? OKAY.

WHO'S THE SECOND SEEING NO BOARD REQUEST TO SPEAK ANY PUBLIC COMMENT, SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD SEEING NO BOY COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

MOVING FORWARD WITH ITEMS 16 CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST TO AUTHORIZE THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP ANY ISSUE, A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR FACILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS BOARD NUMBER LANA'S AND A SECOND.

THE MOTION CARRIES.

[16. RFP: Facilities Management Services ]

AND I'LL TRY TO BE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY VOTING ON AN RFP TONIGHT.

THIS IS JUST THE SUPERINTENDENT ACTS.

AND CAN THEY BEGIN THE CREATION OF THE RFP? SO THIS IS MORE JUST SAY A POINT OF CLARITY.

I KNOW THAT IN WHAT WAS PUBLISHED, IT WAS AT 20% MINORITY PARTICIPATING, EVEN THOUGH, AS OF RIGHT NOW, CURRENTLY WE ARE UTILIZING 42% MINORITY PARTICIPATION.

SO MY REQUEST IS THAT A MINORITY PARTICIPATION AMONGST OUR LOCAL VENDORS AND CUSTODIAL SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVE A 50% TARGET THRESHOLD.

THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO REQUEST.

YOU WANT TO PUT THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION, OR YOU JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT AS A REQUEST? I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT AS A REQUEST BECAUSE WHEN I ACTUALLY VOTED ON THE RFP RIGHT NOW, I KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TO BRING THAT BACK BEFORE US.

SO WE'LL SEE IT THEN.

SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.

SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD, SEEING ALL THE BOARD COMMENT, MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.

SEEING ALL THE BOARD COMMENT, ANY PUBLIC COMMENT,

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THE MOTION CARRIES MOVING FORWARD WITH I M E F THAT HELD UP MOVING FORWARD WITH ITEM 19, THE STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW MOVING FORWARD WITH J ONE.

I USUALLY MAKE TELL HIM, I MAY TELL HIM MARKS AND I MESSED UP MY TELEPHONES.

THAT'S WHY I'M.

THANK

[J. Charter Contract Amendment-Helix Community Schools ]

YOU.

J ONE CHARTER SCHOOL CONTRACT, AMENDMENT, HELIX, COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, CONSIDERATION OF REQUESTS TO AMEND THE CHARTER SCHOOL CONTRACT WITH HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES TO ESTABLISH HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS AS THE CHARTER MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOR MENTORSHIP ACADEMY.

CAN I GET A MOTION BOARD MEMBER? LANA'S SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER, HOWARD CNO BOARD COMMENT.

ANY PUBLIC COMMENT SEEING NO PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD SEEING NO BOARD COMMENT.

OH, OKAY.

IT WAS A MISCOMMUNICATION ON THE NO PUBLIC COMMENT.

NO PROBLEM.

MY APOLOGIES.

CURRENTLY MENTORSHIP IS SCHOOL THAT IS UNDER OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, UM, UNDER OUR GOVERNING BODY.

AND I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE FOR A POINT OF CLARITY, ARE WE SAYING THAT RIGHT NOW THEY DON'T HAVE HELIX AS THEIR CHARTER ENTITY OR ARE WE QUESTIONING IT OR ARE WE SAYING THAT WE HAVE A CHARTER SCHOOL THAT HAS BEEN OPERATING AND GRADUATING STUDENTS THAT WE REALLY HAVE NOT BEEN MAKING SURE THAT ALL THEIR DUCKS ARE LINED UP IN A ROW? SO PUBLIC COMMENT IS PUBLIC COMMENT IS ONLY COMMENT AND NOT QUESTIONS.

UM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO FRAME THAT IN THE QUESTION? I MEAN A COMMENT.

YES MA'AM.

GIVE ME BACK MY 24 SECONDS.

UM, I WAS ONLY STATING THAT AS A QUESTION BECAUSE I WANTED THE BOARD TO ACTUALLY CONSIDER IT, UM, BECAUSE IF WE HAVE BEEN ALLOWING THIS PARTICULAR CHARTER SCHOOL TO ACTUALLY OPERATE AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE, AND THEY WASN'T UNDER A REAL TRUE CONTRACT OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, THEN WE PUT OURSELVES IN A, IN A VERY MUCH, A BIG LEGAL LIABILITY.

AND SO I'M JUST ASKING THAT, UM, WHENEVER WE HAVE ANYTHING THAT COMES BEFORE US THAT RELATES TO ANY OF THE SCHOOLS, UM, CONTRACT THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT THE, UH, PUBLIC HALF, LIKE EVERY SINGLE THING, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE WAY THIS IS PRESENTING, IT IS PRESENTING TO ME AS A PERSON THAT HAS BEEN READING IT.

LIKE THEY HAVE NOT BEEN UNDER ANYTHING OTHER THAN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

AND ACTUALLY IT'S BEEN ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS, WHICH PROBABLY COULD HAVE BEEN, BEEN LOOKED AT AS A TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL.

SO THAT'S, UM, THE REASON THAT I POSED THOSE QUESTIONS FOR EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD TO CONSIDER, AND IF THE BOARD FELT THE NEED TO GIVE A POINT OF CLARITY THAT THEY COULD SO THAT THE PUBLIC COULD ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND.

SEEING NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT BACK TO THE BOARD BOARD MEMBER GO DAY.

CAN ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT THAT CHARTER SCHOOL HAS BEEN UNDER OUR GUIDANCE AND, UH, IN PROGRAMS AND PROTOCOLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

MA'AM JUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

ALL OF THE BACKUP MATERIAL IS IN BOARD DOCS, WHICH OUTLINES THE PART OF, UH, WHY THIS AMENDMENT IS IN THERE.

AND I

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SO THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING GOING ON OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

THIS IS A ROUTINE TYPE OF BUSINESS CHANGE.

AND I'D LIKE FOR OUR GENERAL CONSOLE, MR. SHAMBLIN, JUST TO GIVE A SENTENCE OR TWO SAYING WHERE IT IS, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING TO THIS EXCEPT AN INTERNAL DECISION BY THE CHARTER SCHOOL TO HOW THEY OPERATE.

THANK YOU, MR. GOLDIE.

THIS IS, UH, THIS IS SIMPLY AN AMENDMENT TO A CURRENT CONTRACT.

THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE, UH, WITH HELIX NETWORK OF EDUCATIONAL CHOICES.

AND THAT, THAT REFERS TO MENTORSHIP STEAM ACADEMY IS HOW WE ALL KNOW IT.

UM, THEY'VE ACTUALLY ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE AGREEMENT, ADOPTING A NEW CMO, A NEW CHARTER MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION, AND THAT WOULD BE HELIX COMMUNITY SCHOOLS WHO CURRENTLY ALSO RUNS TWO OF THE OTHER SCHOOLS.

SO THIS IS SIMPLY A MATERIAL AMENDMENT OF THE CONTRACT AND BECAUSE, AND DO THE POLICY REQUIRES BOARD APPROVAL.

AND SO WE SIMPLY REPLACING THE PARTIES IN THE CONTRACT, CHANGING THE NAMES OVER CONTRACTING WITH THE OTHER TERMS OF THE CONTRACT REMAINED THE SAME, NO CHANGES.

THANK YOU, SARAH.

BOARD MEMBER, GO DAY BOARD MEMBER LEARNERS.

I MET A VICE-PRESIDENT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF, UH, PUBLIC CONFIDENCE AND TRANSPARENCY.

I SEE THE MR. WEBB IS HERE FROM THE HELIX AVIATION ACADEMY.

IS IT APPROPRIATE TO ASK AND TO COME FORWARD FOR A SECOND? JUST SO HE CAN CLARIFY SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR FROM THEIR, UH, THEIR MOUTH, UM, BOARD MEMBER LANA'S AT YOUR REQUEST AS A BOARD MEMBER.

HE CERTAINLY CAN.

MR. WEBB, GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT AND BOARD.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING THOSE DCP QUESTIONS.

YES, SIR.

I JUST WANTED YOU TO JUST QUICKLY CLARIFY, UH, THE DIFFERENCES IN THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT AND THIS NEW CONTRACT, RIGHT? SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS CONTRACT AND THE CONTRACT WE HAD BEFORE WILL FALL ON THE A, UH, MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION, TWO OF OUR SCHOOLS ARE CURRENTLY UNDER THE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION.

AND SO WHAT IT WILL DO, IT WILL JUST BE MORE EFFICIENT FOR ALL THREE OF THE SCHOOLS TO BE ON THE, THE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION.

AND IT ALSO HELPS WITH SPENDING COSTS SO WE CAN SHARE A LOT OF THINGS, WHETHER IT BE TRANSPORTATION, WHETHER IT BE OVERHEAD, ALL OF THOSE THINGS CAN BE SHARED UNDER ALL OF THE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION.

THAT'S MY ONLY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU ALL THAT YOU ALL DO.

AMAZING WORK AND DOUBLE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR.

LANA IS SEEING NO OTHER BOARD COMMENT BAD, UM, BUT W W UH, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE, UH, BACK AND FORTH.

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS TO BE ANNOUNCED BY BOARD MEMBER.

THE MOTION CARRIES IT'S 7 57

[K. Announcement of Meetings ]

GO DAY.

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS OF MEETINGS, COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 5TH, 2021 AT 5:00 PM AT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER, THAT BACK TO SCHOOL BASH WILL BE HELD AUGUST 7TH, 2021 FROM 10:00 AM TO 4:00 PM AT THE RAISINGS CANE RIVER CENTER.

SUMMER, ALL BOARD MEMBERS MAY ATTEND THE REGULAR MEETING TO BE HELD ON AUGUST 19TH, 2021 AT 5:00 PM AT THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER.